Tag Archives: Connection

Sparked Distraction

Posted on December 23, 2023 by alohapromisesforever

Sparked Distractionby Michael DoyleAll the world is extraordinaryThere is so much to seeIn every moment and all actionsThere is the spark of distractionHopefully and creativelyYour safety is found in beautyAs you go out into the world to seeAll there is … Continue reading →

Posted in Poetry and Poems | Tagged 21st Century, Beauty, Belong, Best Light, Birthday Candle, Box, Breadcrumbs, Cancer, Candle Lights, Capturing Life, Clear, Comedy, Connection, Continue, Creative, Cry, Curiousity, Darkness, Death, Degree, Distance, Doubt, Dramedy, Eventuality, Every Moment, Existential, Extradordinary, Fallen Tear, Film, Final Answers, Fork, Fullest, Future, Generation, Gratitude, Grow, Heavens, Heavens Above, History, Hopeful, Imagination, Implausible, Impossible, Inspiration, Known, Last Breath, Learn, Left Behind, Letting Go, Little Smiles, Live Love, Living Gods, Lock, Look, Love, Majesty, Matters, Miarcles, Mournful Look, Nightmares, Nowhere, Once, Pain, Path of Life, Pay, Penance, Poetry and Poems, Real, Reality, Rebirthed, Records, Road, Safety, Scourge, Sensation, Shatter, Short or Long, Songs, Sorrow, Sparked Distraction, Stay, Stride, Struggles, Surreal, Take Care, Tears, Terror, There, Tomorrow, Torment, Touch, Travel, Whisper, Worthy | Leave a comment

The Kindness of Blind Love

Posted on December 13, 2023 by alohapromisesforever

The Kindness of Blind Loveby Michael DoyleEvery once in a while, you findThat life can be a smile and be kindYou find, as I’ve sometimes foundThat if you don’t chase it aroundLove shows up, and it is kindThe best kind … Continue reading →

Posted in Poetry and Poems | Tagged Ages, Ask, Ask For More, Authentic Communication, Blind Love, Charge, Cleanest Way, Connection, Core, Down, Eyes, False Pride, Find, Found, Great Sign, Heart, History's Pages, Kind, Kindness, Led, Life, Lost, Love, Nose, Nowhere, Once In A While, Poetry and Poems, Questions, Real, Show Up, Smile, Somewhere Inside, Soul, Stop Trying, Trace, Truest Connection, Vanity | Leave a comment

On Which Life Depends

Posted on November 25, 2023 by alohapromisesforever

On Which Life Dependsby Michael DoyleWe play games aimed to pleaseAs we touch and you teaseShowing me your personal spacesAnd touching me with your tracesThese linger inside my mindYours is the touch that I’ve wanted to findI am in a … Continue reading →

Posted in Poetry and Poems | Tagged Action, Begins, Blur, Close, Connection, Depends, Emotions, Ends, Everything, Explore, Fear, Feelings, Forget-Me-Nots, Games, Heat, Life, Linger, Melt, Mind, Night, Paces, Passion, Personal Spaces, Please, Poetry and Poems, Practicality, Presence, Reflection, Sensuality, Stumble, Summer, Tease, Touch, Traces, Understanding, Walk Through | Leave a comment

The Blood of Unrequited Tears

Posted on October 30, 2023 by alohapromisesforever

The Blood of Unrequited Tearsby Michael DoyleEven children book storiesHold whispers of former gloriesLike the Book of Life’s ResurrectionIf we follow the clues, we’ll find the connectionsA brave child will dare to readUsing his imagination to find where it leadsEven … Continue reading →

Posted in Poetry and Poems | Tagged Adventure, Arise, Attachment, Blood, Burning Fire, Children Book Stroies, Coax, Connection, Consequences, Curses, Damnation, Death and Pain, Despair, Disrepair, Doctor, Forgotten, Funeral Pyres, Hell, Hippocratic Oath, Hypocritic Snare, Imagination, Mercy, Plague, Poetry and Poems, Read, Tears | Leave a comment

The Path of Generosity

Posted on October 15, 2023 by alohapromisesforever

The Path of Generosityby Michael DoyleStanding on a mountain of epiphanyStill, wondering what might come for meThis is no moment of bumper-sticker fameSome of the things happening are a shameReaching out for all the unreachedBringing the resources so that the … Continue reading →

Posted in Poetry and Poems | Tagged Blessings, Bumper-Sticker, Chance, Christmas Spirit, Church, Circumstances, Connection, Darkness, Embrace, Epiphany, Fame, Feed, Fish and Loaves, Five Thousand, Forge, Generosity, Give, Gospel, Gratitude, In Light Of, Live, Mount Kilimanjaro, Nobility, Opportunity, Paralable, Path, Poetry and Poems, Preach, Promise, Reach, Resurrection, Right Attitude, Satisfaction, Shame, Space, Speak, Spiritual Economy, The Lord, Tomorrow, Truth to Power, Unchurched, Understand, Unreached, Wonder | Leave a comment

The With-Ness of Our Witness

Posted on October 8, 2023 by alohapromisesforever

The With-Ness of Our Witnessby Michael DoyleGod isn’t a cosmic killjoy out to dealOut the harsh things that keep it realGod is faithful and loves celebrationAnd lessons he often teaches are with elationWe sometimes arrive a little rough around the … Continue reading →

Posted in Poetry and Poems | Tagged Action, Bridgee, Celebration, Connection, Cosmic Killjoy, Deal, Death, Edge, Elation, Four Gospels, God, Godly Ways, Hars, Pentecost, Poetry and Poems, Prevail, Real, Reborn, Resurrection, Rough, Sin, Teach, Traction, With-Ness, Witness | Leave a comment

Between the Uncomfortable Truths

Posted on July 29, 2023 by alohapromisesforever

Between the Uncomfortable Truthsby Michael DoyleIn the uncomfortable truths there were connectionsNothing compared to her open, honest reflectionsOn those things often very difficult to sayShe never paid much mind to bringing controversy to the dayPerhaps it is that she truly … Continue reading →

Posted in Poetry and Poems | Tagged Ahead of Her Time, Another Day, Approximation, Artistry, Attempt, Bardo, Bardo of Experienced True Reality, Between, Between Death and Rebirth, Bi-Polar Disorder, Bled, Bound, Brought Down Slow, Caged, Candle, Child, Circumspection, Clear Light, Come, Compassion and Wisdom, Concealed, Connection, Controversy, Conversations, Corridor, Cosmic Liberation, Cross, Culpable, Death, Death Closes In, Defiled, Deities, Devastation, Different Orders, Difficult To Say, Dimensions, Drawn Back, Duality, Earth, Edges, Entirely Undone, Express, Extinction of Illussion, Fateful Day, Fearlessness, Fine Romance, Fleeting Mometns, Forgot, God's Kingdom, Guide, Honest, Honesty, Increments, Karmic Hazard, Last Breath, Liberation, Life, Lived Undead, Lose, Losses, Love Transcended, Maya's Veils, Morality, Multiple Forms, Mystical Union, Nothing Compared, One's Breath, Open, Paid, Parent, Peace, Peaceful, Place of Healing, Poetry and Poems, Post-Conventional, Prior, Properly Alive, Properly Dead, Realities, Reality, Reflections, Regained, Regret, Rememberings, Remorse, Restratined, Said It Best, Sinead O'Connor, Slide, Sorrow, Soul Revealing, Soulmate, Spiritual Borders, Spiritually Capable, Starry Firmament, Stone, Success, Surprising, Suspended, Tomorrow, Truly Hearing, Truths, Tweet, Twilight Language, Uncertain Circumstance, Uncomfortable, Understanding, Unholy Feeling, Up-Ended, Voice, Walk, Walk the Line, Wisdom, Words, Words of Love, World's Loss, World's Soul, Wrathful, Yab-Yum | Leave a comment

X Marks the Spot

Posted on July 26, 2023 by alohapromisesforever

X Marks the Spotby Michael DoyleSo now, here it is, and seemsThat in a community of dreamsX has come to mark the spotWhere the globe connects the dotsOf conversations that we fieldWhere no one really yieldsBut mingles outbursts of conversationThat … Continue reading →

Posted in Poetry and Poems | Tagged Ability, Ambiguity, Artificial Wall, Authority, Boundary-Crushing, Bridge, Certain Cool, Churn, Clashing Views, Cognitive Dissonance, Commodity, Community, Compel, Connection, Conversations, Corporate Decisions, Creativity, Credibility, Curious, Cycle of Life and Death, Dare, Decision, Defy, Depedent, Derision, Desperation, Detail, Dreams, Dues, Economy, Elon, Extremes, Fascination, Find, Flair, Giddiness, Global Town Square, Globe, Grin, Happneing, Inspiration, Lash, Learn, Ledge, Legendary, Let Go, Memories, Mind, Opportunistic, Opportunity, Original Sin, Outbursts, Paypal, Perpetuity, Pleasure, Poetry and Poems, Point of Success, Rebranding, Rejuvenation, Resistance, Seams, Smallest Detail, Spot, Stomach Acid, Symbol, Symbology, Thrive, Understanding, Unfinished Business, Universal Imagination, Unlimited Interactivity, Vaporware, WeChat, X, Yield | Leave a comment

Dwelling Richly

Posted on July 23, 2023 by alohapromisesforever

Dwelling Richlyby Michael DoyleStanding there caught amidst my sighI raise my hands up to the skyGiving myself in prayerful conversationIn the truth of my greatest relationIn an echo of God’s word, lived in my lifeI turn further toward peace, away … Continue reading →

Posted in Poetry and Poems | Tagged Best, Boy, Connection, Conversation, Direction, Dwell, Echo, God's Will, Journey, Man, Peace, Poetry and Poems, Relation, Richly, Sigh, Sky | Leave a comment

Everything Made Easier

Posted on July 13, 2023 by alohapromisesforever

Everything Made Easierby Michael DoyleEverything is made easier with a breathAnd the touch of your handI look into your soul and find the depthThat has always helped me to understandIt’s there in our strength of connectionSeeing from your perspective forms … Continue reading →

Posted in Poetry and Poems | Tagged Agree, Arms Open Wide, Bond, Breath, Connection, Depth, Easier, Every Sight, Everything, Feeling, Forgive, Heart, History, Love, Love Again, Perspective, Poetry and Poems, Renewed, Respond, Selfless, Side, Soul, Soul's Revealing, Strength, Touch, True Affection, Understand, Your Eyes | Leave a comment